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THOUGHTS 



ON THE BOOKS OF 



MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, 



AND 



JOHN. 



By OLIVER BUTTEEFIELD. 



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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, 

By OLIVER BUTTERFIELD, 
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MATTHEW 



1 : 18. What deformity and suffering 
there is in the world for the want of the 
knowledge of a healthy and holy propaga- 
tion of the human race. 

1 : 25. To be happy we must be gov- 
erned by the love of usefulness and perfec- 
tion, instead of the gratification of the 
propensities without regard to the con- 
sequences. 

2 : 16. What cruelty some will perpe- 
trate to sustain themselves in office and 
power. 

3 : 11. Baptism is the inspiration of 
truth and the love of usefulness. 

4 : 4. Words of love and truth well 
chosen and fitly spoken, stimulate the soul 
to a higher life. 



MATTHEW 



4 : 6, 7. Exercise reason and judgment 
before submitting to impulses and blind 
faith. 

4: 9. Whosoever will sacrifice a mission 
of love and usefulness for earthly posses- 
sions, will have sad reflections in mature 
consideration. 

4 : 11. How consoling is sympathy and 
friendship in times of evil temptations and 
trials. 

4 : 17. Preparation for the kingdom of 
heaven is in your individual and social 
organization, as you are prepared to receive 
and promote it. 

4 : 19. Follow Jesus, the God of love, 
light and truth, and he will qualify you 
to attract and instruct men by superior love 
and wisdom. 

5 : 3. When we feel our need of more 
light and love, we shall be happy to seek 
and find it, and be established in the enjoy- 
ment of eternal life. 

5:4. Afflictions will exercise our affec- 



MATTHEW. 



tions and unite congenial spirits in the 
bonds of love and faith. 

5:5. When we are imbued with the 
knowledge and love of Jesus we shall have 
all our wants supplied. 

5 : 6. When we make the knowledge 
and love of truth the object of our lives we 
shall understand and promote the laws of 
our individual and social natures, and be 
satisfied and happy in love, one towards 
another. 

5 : 7. Those who do not cultivate mer- 
cy cannot find mercy. 

5 : 8. Blessed are those who can per- 
ceive the spirit of light and love passing 
from heart to heart, to purify the human 
race ; for as face answereth to face in water 
so does the heart of man to man. 

5 : 9. Blessed are those who are happy 
in promoting peace and righteousness on 
earth. 

5 : 10. If our faculties are stimulated 
by persecution, it will lead us to strengthen 



MATTHEW 



our principles ; and if our principles are 
established on the rock of ages, we shall be 
happy in progressive love and truth and in 
overcoming evil with good. 

5 : 12. In all ages of the world there 
have been religious reformers and religious 
conservatives — persons imbued with new 
spiritual life, and those wedded to past 
usages and customs ; but let the friends of 
new impulses examine and mature their 
principles, for great is their reward in a 
heaven of love in the rising generations, as 
they are in Christ the life and the resur- 
rection. 

5 : 13, 14, 15, 16. Persons of experience 
should impart their knowledge, that they 
may be instrumental in promoting the 
glory of God in the perfection of the human 
race. 

5 : 17. The law of God's purpose is the 
nature and operation of things, and the 
prophets are the teachers sent to enlighten 
the children of men and give them new 
thoughts for new generations. Whosoever 



MATTHEW 



violates their physical and mental organiza- 
tion hy vicious and unnatural habits which 
exhaust their early vigor and their facul- 
ties, shall suffer premature decay and 
shame, and transmit disease and misery to 
their posterity. 

5 : 21. Whosoever destroys the life or 
reputation of a fellow-being, breaks the 
laws of his social organization and wounds 
his own soul. 

5 : 27. To indulge lust in unnatural 
acts or thoughts inflames the passions, 
exhausts the faculties, and produces the 
most loathsome diseases that afflict human- 
ity ; few sins are so awfully destructive to 
the beauty of the soul — the true life of love. 

5 : 29. Cut off all impure and exciting 
habits if you would have a happy life and a 
happy posterity. 

5 : 33. Men should not perform oaths 
to men, but to the God of truth only. 

5 : 38. Rigorous laws and penalties 
exasperate and harden, while mercy and 



8 



MATTHEW 



forgiveness soften and reform. Human 
nature can be improved only by love and 
sympathetic instruction. 

5 : 40. There should be more regard to 
honor than to fear and to penalties. 

5 : 42. If you have oppressive rulers, 
render good for evil that they may learn 
mercy and wisdom. 

5 : 44. Enmity can be removed only by 
love and kindness, for as face answers to 
face in water, so does the heart of man to 
man. We all have the same organization, 
but differing in degrees of power ; the 
organs of our bodies act upon and govern 
each other, and as we are organs of the 
social body, so we act upon and govern 
each other by our social influence. And if 
our individual systems are governed by the 
superior moral organs, so is the social sys- 
tem governed by the superior principles 
and cultivation of individual members. If 
our combativeness is excited and we strike 
a fellow-being, it will excite his combative- 
ness, and he will strike back ; but if our 






MATTHEW. 9 



combativeness is calmed by enlightened 
benevolence, so we shall calm his combative- 
ness by our superior benevolence ; and if 
we subject our fellow to severe penalties, we 
shall excite retaliation in his congenial 
friend, and we shall be in danger till we 
conquer by superior love and superior 
principles. 

6:5. Hypocrisy deceives none so 
much as those who practice it. 

6:6. Pray for and cultivate constant 
aspirations for truth. 

6:9. After this manner pray ye, Our 
Father which art in heaven, hallowed be 
thy name ; thy kingdom come, thy will be 
done on earth as it is in heaven ; give us 
this day our daily bread, and forgive us our 
debts as we forgive our debtors ; and suffer 
us not to be tempted, but deliver us from 
evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power 
and the glory, forever. Amen. 

6 : 14. If we shall forgive those who 
tresspass against us, they by the law of love 
and kindness will be led to reform, and a 



10 MATTHEW 



happy influence will be spread from heart 
to heart, which will animate and enlarge 
the moral faculties till all are purified and 
united in one universal brotherhood of 
kindred spirits. 

■ 6 : 16. The use of fasting is for serious 
reflection and to equalize the organs of our 
physical and mental organization. 

6 : 19. The inheritance of wealth takes 
away the incentive to self-reliance and ex- 
ertion. People should depend upon the 
love of God and the mutual love and 
mutual help of the social system — the love 
of their neighbors as themselves. They 
should lay up their treasure in the heads 
and hearts of the rising generation ; with 
happy homes and knowledge, and full hopes 
of the resurrection. 

6 : 22. Prejudice and sordid self keep 
us from the true light of life; if we mistake 
darkness for light, how great is that 
darkness. 

6 : 24. We cannot put our trust in 
riches, and at the same time love God 
supremely and our neighbor as ourselves. 



MATTHEW. 11 



6 : 25. If we would take more thought 
for and interest in our neighbors, and less 
for sordid self, we should be more happy 
and useful ; we must be so associated that 
we can be free from corroding anxieties 
about our individual interest, and care 
more for others. We must be so educated 
and cultivated that we can rest in the wis- 
dom and love of God in the children of 
men. 

6 : 26. If we feed others with the 
knowledge of true life, we have increased 
pleasure in social love and active benevo- 
lence. 

6 : 28. A mind must be feeble and 
barren of usefulness that is led by the 
fashions of dress. 

6 : 33. We must be occupied in the 
perfection of humanity if we would enjoy 
the love of God and the love of our neigh- 
bor as ourselves. 

7:1. As we judge and treat others, 
they by the law of nature will judge and 
treat us. 



12 MATTHEW 






7:3. It is an evidence of ignorance 
and malice to expose the failings of others 
while we neglect our own* 

7 : 6. Give not your efforts of instruc- 
tion to minds wedded to self-importance 
and superannuated systems ; but seek your 
own mature ideas of truth, duty and the 
light of life. 

7:7. It is a consoling thought that we 
have an invisible, all-wise Protector, ready 
to do all that is for our greatest good. 

7:9. No enlightened father will sup- 
press the aspirations of his children. If 
children do not love their parents who 
cherish them, there is some antecedent 
wrong in the parentage. 

6 : 12. It has a reforming and animat- 
ing influence to be associated with those 
who are governed by mutual love — the 
love of others as themselves. There is a 
law of our natures which pervades all 
hearts, and each one exerts some influence 
for good or for evil on the whole. True 
love is happiness according to the extent of 



MATT HEW . 13 



the object loved. If we love ourselves 
only, our happiness is limited ; if we love 
our neighbor as ourselves, our happiness is 
increased. So if we love God, — the whole, 
the pure, all pervading intelligence and 
love of all in all, — our happiness is com- 
plete ; and how delightful is the glory of 
love and perfection in all, onward to a 
heaven of righteousness and peace. 

7 : 15. Beware of such as are wedded 
to old theories, without love of progress or 
freedom of thought. 

7 : 22. What sad reflections and re- 
morse we shall have if we have substituted 
pretence, for love and actual sympathy, 
when Jesus the life shall say, Inasmuch as 
you have deceived others, you have de- 
ceived yourself. 

7: 29. Teachers, to produce conviction, 
must have an inward knowledge and love 
of the subject presented. 

8:3. It will be our happiness to share 
and relieve the trials of those who will cul- 
tivate true life. 



14 MATTHEW. 

8: 4. Tell none what they are incapable 
of appreciating, or who will pervert your 
intentions. 

8 : 11. We are benefited by the spirit- 
ual presence of the great and good who 
have lived before us, if we will realize and 
embrace their experience. 

8 : 12. The children of bigoted sectari- 
ans shall suffer for want of light and pro- 
gressive truth. 

8 : 15. There is a magnetic sympathy 
which will remove many diseases, by ex- 
citing love, hope and energy. 

8 : 20. Selfish and designing men mo- 
nopolize the soil and neglect their duty to 
enlighten others to possess and cultivate 
for mutual benefit and mutual happiness. 
If we would realize the vacancy in a per- 
son's character for the want of something 
to interest and stimulate hope and perse- 
verence, we should not rest till all within 
the limits of our help had an independent 
home secured by laws and customs, where 
they could enjoy free thought and free 
worship. 



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MATTHEW. 15 



8 : 22. Follow your own convictions of 
truth and duty, and leave those who are 
wedded to dead theories to waste their time 
in useless formalities. 

8 : 82. People choose to associate with 
their kind. 

9 : 6. Every son and daughter of man 
has power on earth, when they are enlight- 
ened in the love of Jesus, to forgive sins — 
the power of love and sympathetic instruc- 
tion which will lead to mutual repentance, 
love and mutual hope. 

9 : 13. Love and mercy will soften and 
subdue, while severity will harden the heart 
of man. 

9 : 17. Old, fixed minds cannot bear 
new ideas, but children must have new 
hopes and aspirations. When old systems 
are matured they must give place to new 
developments and organizations. 

9 : 22. Electricity pervades the human 
system, and when it is moved by faith and 
love ; it is healing in its operations. 



16 MATTHEW. 



9 : 24. Power and sympathy may rean- 
imate exhausted nature, 

9 : 28. Confidence and co-operation in 
the power of love will open our eyes to 
behold new truths. 

9: ST. The people are ready, but 
teachers who have faith in moral power are 
few. 

10 : 1. Man and woman, when they are 
imbued with the holy spirit of love, true 
life and knowledge, will have power over 
unclean spirits. 

10 : 7. The kingdom of heaven is in 
our lives when we are prepared to promote 
and enjoy it. 

10: 8. We must sympathise with the 
unfortunate, if we would elevate social life ; 
we must have faith in the perfection of 
humanity ; nothing else can fill the great 
want of our souls. 

10 : 9. We should not trust in money, 
but in our own efforts and the love of God 
in the hearts of men. 



MATTHEW. 17 



10: 16. Cultivate suavity, courtesy and 
moral courage, that you may have an influ- 
ence over the unfortunate and those that 
are led astray. 

10: 19. Trust in God and speak as you 
are moved by love of truth, at the time, 
place and events which call for your testi- 
mony ; for your heavenly Father speaketh 
in you. 

10 : 22. Never give up to opposition 
and discouragement ; for hope and peace 
will come to all who trustingly labor for a 
good cause. 

10 : 23. If we will enter into the ser- 
vice of Christ, his spirit will be manifest 
in us and we shall be like him — the Son of 
Man perfected and desirous of doing good. 
It is enough that the disciple be as his 
Master. 

10 : 28. Fear not designing men, but 
fear your own degrading servility, evil 
passions and propensities, which will 
destroy both body and mind in repulsive 
shame and decay. 

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18 MATTHEW 



10 : 36. It causes strife to discuss and 
remove a social evil. 

10 : 38. How few can bear to have 
their religious tenets questioned or crossed. 

10: 39. Whosoever would save a life 
of self-indulgence shall lose* the pleasures 
of a spiritual life, 

10 : 40. We represent those whose in- 
fluence forms our characters. 

10: 42. It is delightful to help those 
who need help and will reciprocate acts of 
kindness., 

11 : 4. A man's work proves his 
mission. 

11 : 6. Blessed are those who can em- 
brace the truth taught by Jesus, the true 
life and the resurrection. 

11 : 12. The law of outward force can 
never govern the world of mankind ; true 
government is in moral instruction and 
individual freedom. 

11 : 14. The rising of the principles 



MATTHEW. 19 



hoped for is in a succession of prophets in 
progression. 

11 : 16. Children have new thoughts 
and aspirations which should be cultivated. 

11 : 25. Children are susceptible of the 
law of love. 

11 : 27. Kindred spirits understand 
each other by spiritual vision and the law 
of sympathy. 

11 : 28. We must raise up the fallen 
and cultivate confidence and trust in each 
other ; it will encourage faithfulness, honor 
and friendship. 

12 : 1. Wickedness seeks punishment 
for the wicked, but goodness loves mercy 
and forgiveness. 

12 : 8. The human system requires 
amusement, devotion and relaxation from 
labor, and people should exercise their own 
judgment as to times, subject to order, and 
individual freedom. 

12: 19. The impress which a person 
carries often speaks louder than words. 



20 



MATTHEW 



12 : 20. Be tender with those who are 
worn with tribulation and anguish. 

12 : 28. When we are prepared by the 
spirit of truth to embrace eternal life, the 
kingdom of God has come unto us, and we 
shall be able to withstand evil temptations. 

12 : 31. Whosoever will wound an 
affectionate heart, cuts himself off from 
mutual and holy sympathy ; if parents are 
cruel, their children will be cruel till they 
are changed by the holy spirit of love ; if 
the tree is corrupt, the fruit will also be 
corrupt. 

12 : 39. Ignorant and superstitious 
people trust in signs instead of the law of 
God in the nature and operation of things. 

12: 41. The sufferings from violated 
laws of human nature are the same in all 
ages. 

12 : 43. We cannot reform unless we 
get higher motives and better associates. 

12: 50. How much there is in the 
name of mother, sister and brother, and 
how delightful is Christian relationship ! 



MATTHEW. 21 



13 : 11. The kingdom of heaven shall 
be revealed to those who keep free from 
prejudice and seek truth and progressive 
light. 

13 : 12. Action and duty will strengthen 
our faculties, but idleness will waste and 
destroy. 

13 : 15. People who are kept in mental 
bondage to sectarian craft, will be dull of 
perceiving and understanding. 

13 : 17. Great and good men have 
desired to see the world governed by the 
law of truth and righteousness. Eternity is 
a vast chain of the ages. When we are 
educated to understand the laws of God in 
our age, we can enjoy succeeding ages, and 
be happy in the perfection of our race 
through the knowledge of life and the 
resurrection. 

13 : 20. Superficial and worldly minds 
cannot retain righteous impressions. 

13 : 31. The kingdom of heaven is 
when we discover and enjoy the true laws 



22 



MATTHEW 



of God in nature, spreading a happy influ- 
ence over all nations and people, with 
knowledge and full hope of a happy and 
progressive life through the resurrection. 

13 : 33. The kingdom of heaven is like 
the leaven of true love and true social life, 
which free-educated and Christian women 
instil into the hearts of the rising genera- 
tion. 

13: 41. The Son of Man shall send 
teachers of truth and righteousness to 
raise men above sordid self and false rule. 

13 : 44. Of all the occupations of men, 
farming and commerce are the most con- 
ducive to health and happiness ; when the 
cultivation of the earth and the exchange 
of the produce of the climate and soil is 
conducted scientifically, and with a view of 
mutual benefit, they will stimulate the 
whole faculties and elevate moral principle 
and freedom of thought and action more 
than all other pursuits of life. 

13 : 47. The kingdom of heaven is 



MATTHEW. 23 



social love and progressive light, which 
shall cast out all evil, that the knowledge 
of Jesus be all in all. 

13 : 52. The kingdom of heaven is a 
happy home, where love and peace reign 
supreme, and old things become new in life 
and progression. 

13 : 57. We look too much to foreign 
instruction, instead of exercising our minds 
in self-knowledge and progressive light. 

14 : 19. As little food will satisfy the 
body, where social love is all in all. 

14 : 20. " Economy is a Christian 
virtue." 

14 : 30. We should do all we can for 
ourselves, trusting in God. 

14 : 31. A very little help may save a 
valuable life, and a soul from death. 

15 : 5. A well-cultivated and benevo- 
lent parentage will descend to the children. 

15 : 8. Sincerity and love of light are 
the beauties of devotion. 



24 MATTHEW 



15 : 9. We should not dictate the wor- 
ship of others, but lead them by superior 
love and principle to a higher life. 

15 : 11. Ignorance and filthy and offen- 
sive expressions, make vis repulsive to cul- 
tivated minds. 

15 : 24. A great and benevolent soul 
cannot withhold its sympathy from those 
who need help and instruction. 

16 : 6. Beware of hirelings and domi- 
neering sects, lest they lead to extravagance 
instead of useful instruction. 

16 : 13. Jesus is the embodiment of the 
wisdom of the ages in his age ; the rising 
sun of righteousness and God with us, and 
the light of the world. 

16 : 18. Persons who understand the 
laws of life and the resurrection, will be 
true to their calling. 

16 : 20. Those who cannot understand 
the doctrines and mission of Jesus, should 
not be trusted with his interests. 

16 : 23. Whosoever would control those 



MATTHEW. 25 



above them in knowledge and wisdom, may- 
cause suffering and derangement in the 
progress of the world. 

16 : 24. If we would be benefited by 
the teachings of Jesus, we must deny our- 
selves, all selfish gratifications, and seek 
to promote the glory of God in the perfec- 
tion of the children of men. 

16 : 25. Whosoever would save his life 
at the expense of truth and duty, shall lose 
it. 

16 : 26. If we sacrifice duty and princi- 
ple for the sake of money or power, we 
shall lose the life of the soul — social and 
spiritual life. 

16 : 27. When we enter into the service 
of Jesus, we shall know of his doctrines, 
and be rewarded in the pleasure of doing 
good. 

17 : 3. We may realize the presence of 
the great and good gone before us. 

17 : 9. All matter decays and reno- 
vates. Sons and daughters of men will 



26 MATTHEW 



rise inspired with love and spiritual life — 
saviours to instruct in the life of the ages. 

17 : 12. Those gone before are with us 
as they have done good or evil in their 
generations, and we are happy or unhappy, 
in light or darkness, according to their 
influence or instruction. 

17: 17. How lamentable that we should 
be ignorant of Christ, the light of life and 
power in us to do good. 

17: 20. Faith, love and perseverance 
will accomplish all that is for our good. 

17 : 22. We cannot destroy freedom by 
killing its promulgators, for death is reno- 
vation of life and thought. 

17: 27. We cannot reform men by 
violent opposition to prevailing laws and 
customs, but by obedience, patience and 
sympathetic instruction. 

18 : 3, Children are more susceptible 
of new truths and righteous impressions 
than men subject to creeds and dogmas. 



MATTHEW. 27 



18: 5. We should receive little children 
as teachers, through Jesus, the resurrec- 
tion, that we may learn the wants of hu- 
manity. 

18 : 7. Why will persons wound by 
offences those connected with them ? 

18 : 10. Children know their friends by 
intuition ; they read the soul in the coun- 
tenance. 

18 : 11. It is a happy thought, that we 
may find in the resurrection that which 
was lost. 

18 : 12. There is more happiness in 
saving the lost, than in selfish gratifica- 
tions. If we would benefit those who have 
gone astray, we must make them feel that 
we care for them as free from our dic- 
tation. 

18 : 19. The power of love increases 
according to the number engaged in right- 
eous endeavors. 

18 : 22. There should be no end to for- 
giveness, till all are brought to the knowl- 
edge of God, in the power of kindness. 



28 MATTHEW 



18 : 23. Forgive and overcome evil 
with love and sympathetic instruction. 

18 : 35. God will discipline his children 
according to their propensities. 

19: 6. The God of our natures has 
made male and female to be one, united in 
heart and mind. 

19 : 9. It is indispensable to health and 
happiness that persons of mature age should 
have chaste partners of their love and con- 
fiding trust. 

19 : 12. We should be able to control 
our passions, and keep our own secrets. 

19 : 14. The care and instruction of 
children, is the great lesson of life. 

19 : 17. To enjoy life we must cultivate 
and obey the laws of our physical, mental, 
spiritual and social organization. 

19: 21. Every person is concerned in 
making his individual and social heaven, 
by mutual help and individual and social 
love of Christ, in the rising children of 
men. 



MATTHEW. 29 



19 : 23. We cannot enjoy the kingdom 
of heaven, till we can trust God in the 
hearts of our neighbors, instead of earthly 
treasure. 

19 : 28. When we have the right idea 
of life, we shall be happy in others, and 
others in us, in life and the resurrection. 

19 : 29. When we have forsaken selfish 
gratifications for the love of all in all, we 
shall be happy in all. 

20 : 1. We cannot enjoy more than a 
competence of temporal things ; but as we 
are social in our natures, we can add to 
our happiness by mutual help. 

20 : 10. The knowledge of Jesus will 
lead us to understand the impressions we 
make in life and the resurrection. 

20 : 23. Happiness is not in place or 
station, but in health, contentment, and 
love of truth and of our neighbor as our- 
selves. 

20 : 26. Let any one among you who 
has the knowledge and gift, be our minis- 

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30 MATTHEW 



ter ; and whosoever will be chief, let him 
be a working member of the social body. 

20 : 28. What life-giving improvement 
may be had from social instruction ! When 
the people will exercise their own God- 
given powers, the elders of society and 
those prepared by true wisdom and knowl- 
edge of truth, will be able to minister. 

21 : 16. When Jesus shall reign on 
earth, the children will rejoice in his gov- 
ernment and life. 



21 : 19. Persons who will not be useful 
must wither and decay for the want of life- 
giving exercise and motive. 

21 : 21. Free education and faith in the 
laws of benevolence, will remove mountains 
of ignorance and superstition. 

21 : 24. Ignorant priests and designing 
men seek to govern by dread, instead of 
light and social love. 

21 : 28. A review of our acts is a priv- 
ilege and a duty ; and to acknowledge our 
faults is a mark of moral courage and re- 
finement. 



MATTHEW. 31 



21 : 31. Priests and rulers who exercise 
undue authority, are slow to understand 
the kingdom of God with us. Publicans 
and harlots are more susceptible of the 
progress of truth and righteousness than 
those under the influence of a dead 
theology. 

21 : 33. Ignorant, selfish and dishonest 
people will destroy themselves and others, 
unless they are enlightened in the true 
laws of social life and love. 

21 : 42. Teachers of progressive light 
are rejected till the power of the self-inter- 
ested is broken, and social love takes the 
lead in the affairs of life. 

21 : 46. The multitude have the physi- 
cal power, therefore they should be edu- 
cated to understand and guide their 
passions to promote social harmony and 
moral principle. 

22 : 10. Churches should embrace all 
who manifest any disposition to learn the 
way of true life. 



32 MATTHEW 



22: 11. The vicious cannot enjoy the 
company of the pure, till they are induced 
by true social love to reform, for the sake 
of some body else. 

22 : 14. We may have our special asso- 
ciates, but should neglect none who can be 
benefited by our influence. 

22 : 21. No one should be taxed with- 
out a corresponding benefit. 

22: 23. The past may be recognized 
and improved in the present. Now is the 
resurrection in progress. 

22 : 80. Death dissolves all ties, to be 
renewed at will in the resurrection ; the 
ties of true love are everlasting. 

22 : 31. We are the resurrection of the 
past, and the future will be the resurrec- 
tion of us in the living, in the law of 
progress and perfection. All flesh is as 
grass, but goodness is as the flowers of the 
field, which are continual. In the spring 
they come forth in the progress of life and 
beauty, and in autumn they decay to rise 



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MATTHEW. 33 



again in a future spring — to renew their 
annual presence in the resurrection and 
renovation. So with the human race. See 
the little child — the germ of the man — the 
angel and God with us as his physical, 
moral, mental, social and spiritual faculties 
are developed. The little child comes forth 
into the world through love, the attractive 
associations of natures. Infancy with its 
helplessness and confiding trust ; youth in 
its unfolding beauty ; manhood in its 
strength ; and the winter of age, decay, to 
rise again in our impressions of love, hap- 
piness and usefulness — in the rising and 
progressive generations, to a new heaven, 
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth ever- 
lasting righteousness, peace and love. 

22: 32. The spirits of Abraham, Isaac, 
and Jacob are with us, as we are educated ; 
for spirits have their symbols in the resur- 
rection of Christ in his children. 

22 : 37. To love God supremely in his 
works, and to live according to his laws — 
the laws of our physical, mental, moral, 



34 MATTHEW. 

social and spiritual organizations — is the 
privilege and happiness of man. 

22 : 42. Christ is the inspired Son of 
Man — -the life of the present and hope of 
the future. 

23 : 2. Teachers, to be useful, must 
practice their own doctrines. 

23 : 11. Let the wisest be judge, and 
let any preach who are inspired with love 
of usefulness. 

23 : 12. Modesty is a delightful trait of 
character. 

23 : 13. Hirelings and sectarian bigots 
hinder the progress of truth and light, by 
their self-aggrandizement and cowardly ad- 
herence to dead systems. 

23 : 15. Never proselyte to predeter- 
mined creeds, but lead others to seek their 
own higher life and hope. 

23 : 23. Religious teachers are often 
ignorant of the laws of health, true life, and 
the resurrection of life. 



MATTHEW. 35 



23 : 31. When will parents learn the 
fact that children inherit the qualities of 
their progenitors ? How long will man- 
kind sow and reap bitter misery ? Healthy 
propagation and cultivation is indispensable 
to the health and happiness of their off- 
spring. 

24 : 4. People should exercise their 
reason that they be not deceived, for Christ 
is the light of love, truth and reason. 

24 : 9. New truths are hated by those 
who live by the awe of old systems. 

24: 13. Those who hold firmly to 
righteous convictions of truth and duty, 
shall be saved from false beliefs and the 
power of fanaticism. 

24 : 14. When the doctrines of Jesus 
are understood by the nations of the earth, 
the end of false rule will come, and right- 
eousness and love will govern the people. 

24 : 27. As the sun rises and dispels 
the darkness of night, so shall the love of 
Jesus shine from soul to soul, till it dispels 
the darkness of ignorance and superstition 



36 MATTHEW 



— so shall the coming of the Son of Man 
be. 

24 : 30. Any change of government or 
custom disturbs those who live by the 
ignorance and servitude of their fellow 
beings. When the full light of Christ shall 
come on earth to establish the brotherhood 
of the human race, then shall mistaken 
rulers mourn ; and the stars of their glory 
shall fall ; and false civilization shall not 
be taken for light. 

24: 35. The words of Jesus are accord- 
ing to the laws of God. In nature there is 
a continual succession. Whatsoever has 
been in some form, will be in the renova- 
tion and progress of the generations of 
men ; and things, life and soul will be in 
the resurrection continually. Saviours 
will rise to direct in the knowledge and 
duties of our spheres, till we are perfect as 

God is perfect. 

i 
25 : 2. The kingdom of heaven is the 

perfection of love, and a happy preparation 

for life and all its changes. 



MATTHEW. 37 



25 : 7. Intellectual persons, and those 
who are ignorant, cannot enjoy an intellec- 
tual feast together ; the door of mutual 
communication is shut, till it is opened by 
similar education, or similar tastes for im- 
provement. There is happiness in social 
intercourse and* instruction, but those who 
will not prepare themselves with light, 
cannot be admitted into the social circle of 
the instructed. 

25 : 14. The kingdom of heaven is like 
the human family in a state of mutual love 
and mutual help, where each is cultivating 
and improving his faculties for the good of 
the whole — where all may have sufficient 
for their individual and social wants, 
though their requirements may be dif- 
ferent. 

25 : 25. The envious and jealous are 
the hardest to instruct in social love and 
moral principle. 

25 : 29. Action and industry will im- 
prove and sustain our faculties, while idle- 
ness will waste and destroy. We cannot 
help those who will not help themselves, 



38 MATTHEW 



25: 81. When the Son of Man shall 
come in the spiritual knowledge of the life 
of the ages, all will be interested in one 
common brotherhood, realizing the truth 
that our acts are reciprocal in their opera- 
tions, and that we are so constituted and 
connected that to promote the happiness of 
others will add to our good in Christ, the 
Son of Man — the resurrection of life in 
those now around us. 

25 : 41. When we come to our own 
mature judgment, we shall have bitter grief 
for wrong doing and neglect of duty. 

25 : 45. A tender and true-hearted per- 
son will feel an injury done to a friend 
more keenly than if done to himself, for we 
are not our own keepers. 

26 : 4. Mistaken priests in all ages of 
the world have made a trade in the aspira- 
tions, hopes and fears of the children of 
men ; they have consulted how they might 
destroy the sous and daughters of free 
thought and free action. When will 
oppressors learn that they cannot destroy a 



MATTHEW. 39 



new idea by killing its promulgators ? — for 
thoughts are electrical as they are opposed. 

20 : 26. Bread is the body of life. 

26 : 29. Whatsoever produces a healthy 
animation is the true spirit of life. 

26: 32. Persons who are interested in 
superannuated systems, will be offended 
with the light of progressive life, but when 
we have knowledge, love and full hope of 
the resurrection, we shall be happy in our 
present and future progress. 

26 : 42. We should be happy to leave 
all things, but our duty, in the hands of 
God. 

26 : 52. As fire enrages fire, so do the 
passions of our natures. We cannot cure 
an evil by severity. We may restrain it 
for a time, but the root will remain as it 
was. If we restrain our enemies by 
severity, they are our enemies still ; but if 
we conquer them by love and affection we 
change them into the warmest friends. 



40 MATTHEW 



26 : 56. When all earthly friends for- 
sake us, if we will trust God, we are safe 
and happy though our bodies be made a 
sacrifice to appease the wrath of an igno- 
rant multitude. 

26 : 64. How happy when Jesus shall 
reign supreme in the hearts of all — when 
every one shall judge righteously, instead 
of dictating beliefs for others. 

26: 70. We should cultivate moral 
courage to aid and sustain a friend in his 
trials. 

27: 19. When will we heed the counsel 
of enlightened woman ? 

27 : 20. How prone we are to cling to 
the barbarous customs of the past. 

27 : 23. As the multitude is the power, 
how important it should be instructed in 
the way of love and truth. 

27 : 24. Can a person be innocent who 
will see a wrong done to another without 
using his efforts to prevent it ? 



MATTHEW. 41 



27 : 25. All crimes and cruelties are 
on the guilty in life and the resurrection, 
till they are expiated by Christ in the love 
and acts of reformation. 

27 : 85. How long must the innocent 
suffer to appease the vengeance of mis- 
guided, designing men ? 

27: 51. When a misguided people 
have vented their spite on an innocent 
victim, and the truth occurs to them, the 
vail or cloud of their understanding will 
be rent and the graves of ignorance and 
superstition will be opened. Visions of 
the past will appear to them, and they 
will see things as they are. 

27 : 53. When the vail of ignorance 
and superstition is removed by spiritual 
light and freedom of thought, we shall be 
able to see and know the resurrection of 
the past in the life of the present. 

27 : 55. Woman should be educated to 
guide the rising life in the ways of right- 
eousness. 

4* 



42 MATTHEW 



27 : 56. No general councils should be 
held where enlightened women cannot be 
admitted as members. 

27 : 64. How much more pains we take 
to hide our wicked acts, than to improve 
them — to deceive the people, than to en- 
lighten them. 

28: 2. Free education will roll the 
rock of dictatorial creeds away, so that we 
may be instructed in the resurrection and 
the light of life — so that we can see the 
past in the rising generation, the fathers 
and mothers in their children, and our- 
selves in the impressions we make, onward - 
to a new heaven and new earth wherein 
dwelleth righteousness. 

28 : 4. Knowledge and love of Christ 
are a power which will be felt. 

28: 18. If we would have faith and 
courage to speak out our thoughts proper- 
ly, we should have a change in our earth 
most delightful — where we could see Jesus 
in the Father, and the Father in him, and 
we in him. As he is in the Father risers 



MATTHEW. 43 



from the past, so in hira we could trust as 
the beginning and the end of all things ; 
and for him we could at last lay aside our 
bodies, as an old garment worn out in use- 
fulness, and rest in his love and power 
forever. 



44 



MARK 



MARK. 



1 : 13. When we are worn by the rude 
passions of the uncultivated and perverse, 
how consoling is the love and sympathy of 
a benevolent and enlightened soul. 

1 : 14. The kingdom of heaven is with 
us as we are cultivated by the knowledge 
and love of truth and practice of charity. 

1 : 22. When we teach from the true 
affections of the heart, and the inward love 
and knowledge of the soul, we shall reach 
the heart and the understanding of the 
people. 

2 : 10. Every son and daughter of man 
possessed with the love of God in Christ, 
has power on earth to forgive sins. 



MARK. 45 



2 : 17. Pride of privilege is weakness ; 
pride of wealth is vanity. 

2 : 22. Minds fitted to creeds and dog- 
mas cannot bear new ideas ; but children 
must have new thoughts and aspirations. 

2 : 27. Every person should be judge 
of his own Sabbath, subject to order and 
individual freedom. 

3: 21. How many noble minds are 
cramped and injured by zealous and dog- 
matical conservative relations. 

3 : 29. Whosoever will continue to 
embarrass and irritate a sensible friend, is 
in danger of losing his respect and friend- 
ship. 

3 : 35. Whosoever shall do the will of 
God, the same is my brother, mother and 
sister. 

4 : 25. If we do not impart our gifts to 
others as they need, we shall become inac- 
tive, and lose our faculties for usefulness 
and happiness. 

4 : 32. If we persevere in the exercise 



46 MARK 



of our benevolent and social faculties, we 
shall be happy in usefulness. * 

5 : 12. Kindred spirits find their asso- 
ciates, whether virtuous or vicious. 

6:8. Ministers should depend more 
upon industry and economy, than salaries, 
if they would be free from degrading temp- 
tations. 

7 : 11. When children and parents are 
related by love and healthy propagation, 
and are instructed in the true laws of their 
natures, it will be their mutual happiness 
to assist each other in the ups and downs 
of life. 

9 : 13. The great and the good of the 
past are with us, as we are imbued with 
their spirits. 

9 : 35. Whosoever would be first, shall 
be last of all, and servant of all. 

9 : 37. Whosoever receiveth little chil- 
dren in the name and love of Christ, 
receiveth him, and whosoever receiveth 
him, receiveth him that sent him. 



MARK. 47 



: 42. Sensible and benevolent persons 
feel the treatment of friends as much as if 
it were done to themselves. 

10 : 15. Whosoever shall not receive 
the kingdom of God as a little child, shall 
not enter therein. 

10 : 21. Society should be so culti- 
vated that we could depend upon our own 
industry, economy, faculties, and the love 
of humanity, instead of money. 

10 : 23. The rich man can have no 
happiness in his neighbor whom he burdens 
with labor, that he may live in extrava- 
gance. If we would enjoy life, we must 
help others to share our happiness. 

10 : 25. All should live by useful labor, 
which, to be pleasant, must be prompted 
by benevolence, love of beauty and useful- 
ness. It is indispensable to health that we 
should live by our own active labor to im- 
prove our social condition. 

10: 37. To be engaged in any useful 
occupation and condition of life, is honora- 
ble, and conducive to our happiness. 



48 



MARK 



11 : 28. Truth and love from the heart, 
is the true authority of government. 

12 : 25. No other law but the law of 
love and fitness, should bind us in marriage. 

12 : 27. The dead are in the living. 

12 : 43. We should appropriate all for 
the improvement of the social condition. 

13 : 30. The judgment is in every gen- 
eration ; the final judgment is passed. 

14 : 44. How long will people sacrifice 
humanity for the sake of money and fame ? 

14 : 63. Exclusive religious and intoler- 
ant dispositions are the most dangerous 
elements of human nature. 

14 : 64. Beware of hirelings and secta- 
rian bigots. 

15 : 15. The people have the power, and 
when the people are ignorant they are liable 
to be led by designing men to acts of cruelty. 

16 : 12. Jesus will appear in the resur- 
rection, as we are enlightened and spirit- 
ualized. 



MARK. 49 



16 : 17. In the love of Jesus we may 
cast out evil spirits, by promoting love and 
health, and do greater works than he did ; 
because He has gone to the Father and 
left us his knowledge and power for our 
improvement through him. 



50 



LUKE 



LUKE. 



1: 15, 

children. 



Holy parents will have holy 



1 : 41. Kindred spirits are electrical 
and inspiring when they come in contact. 

2 : 19. We should ponder our original 
thoughts and impulses. 

2 : 27. We want ministers who are 
moved by the spirit of truth, instead of 
mechanical instruction. 

2 : 30. When we are prepared by knowl- 
edge and the love of Christ, we may see in 
the little child the promise of future use- 
fulness and power. 

2 : 49. Children should be encouraged 
to follow their own convictions of truth and 
dutv. 



LUKE. 51 



3 : 11. If we would be truly happy, we 
must exercise charity for those we can help. 

3 : 14. Do violence to no one. 

4 : 6. How many lose their integrity by 
the temptations of power and fame. 

4 : 10. Exercise reason, that your faith 
be not blind. 

4 : 20. The people know their true 
leader, when he manifests himself. 

4 : 22. Words spoken from the heart, 
teach the heart. 

4 : 32. We should teach from an in- 
ward understanding of the subject present- 
ed, and not from imaginary beliefs and 
mechanical instruction. 

5 : 30. How disgusting is self-impor- 
tance. 

5 : 33. Let every act of our lives be a 
prayer for the perfection of humanity. 

6 : 39. We have not moral courage 
enough to examine liberally, to see if our 
light be not darkness. 



52 LUKE 



7: 22. A man's works prove his mission. 

7 : 32. Dancing is a very pleasing and 
useful recreation, when conducted with 
temperance and sobriety. 

7 : 47. We do really love those who 
care for our souls. 

9:3. Ministers should depend upon the 
love of God and humanity, with their own 
work in producing, instead of money which 
leads to degrading temptations. 

9 : 23. People cannot bear to have their 
religious sentiments crossed. 

9 : 27. People should be educated to 
cultivate and enjoy heaven in their indi- 
vidual and social lives. 

9 : 50. How much time there is spent 
in compelling others to adopt our limited 
understanding, instead of persuading them 
to seek their own higher views of truth and 
duty. 

9 : 55. People who would compel or 
over-persuade others to adopt their limited 
views, know not what manner of spirit they 
are governed by. 



LUKE . 53 



9 : 58. Shrewd and designing men mo- 
nopolize the earth, till the humble sons and 
daughters of humanity have not where to 
lay their heads. 

9 : 59. Seek new views in Christ* 

9 : 50. Leave dead theology and preach 
the kingdom of God with us. 

9 : 62. We must adopt or receive Christ 
above all things else, if we would be pre- 
pared to understand and preach His king- 
dom. 

10 : 17. When we are prepared by love 
of Christ, evil spirits will be subject unto us. 

11 : 39. How much time there is spent 
in useless ceremonies. 

12 : 5. Fear degrading servility and 
ignorance, which destroy both soul and 
body in darkness and despondency. 

12 : 10. It is hard to forgive those who 
will continually wound and irritate ; such 
we cannot forgive till they reform. 

12: 15. A man's life consisteth in knowl- 
edge and usefulness. 



54 LUKE. 



12 : 51. There must be agitation and 
division, before truth can be established 
over error. 

13 : 3. We should examine ourselves 
and see if we do not possess greater evils 
than those we correct in others ; for char- 
acter has more influence than dictation. 

14 : 3. Many people are more tenacious 
of ceremonies, and of keeping days, than 
they are of doing good and loving their 
neighbor as themselves. 

14 : 9. Persons to be happy and useful, 
must take their stations according to their 
talents and acquirements. 

14: 11. A person is ridiculous who 
occupies a station he is not qualified to fill. 

14 : 14. Our recompense for doing good 
is in the benefit the rising generation re- 
ceive from our instruction. 

14 : 33. We cannot be useful in a cause, 
unless we give our minds to the work. 

15: 4. We must sacrifice our own de- 



LUKE. 55 



sires, if we would be happy in saving others 
from sin. 

15 : 31. We possess all things when we 
are happy in sharing them with others. 

16 : 18. Whosoever marries otherwise 
than for love, commits a sin against pos- 
terity. 

17 : 1. Why will people keep each other 
in everlasting torment ? 

17 : 3. Forgiveness and instruction are 
the only remedies for evil. 

17 : 20. The kingdom of heaven is with- 
in us as our physical, moral, mental, social, 
and spiritual organization and faculties, are 
developed in love and harmony. 

17 : 25. It requires generations to pre- 
pare us to understand and mature great 
truths. 

18 : 1. Let every act of our lives be a 
prayer for some development of the Christ- 
ian principle. 

18 : 12. How disgusting is self-adu- 
lation ! 



56 LUKE 



18 : 13. A cautious distrust of one's 
abilities, is a mark of one's worth and 
capabilities. 

18: 16. The kingdom of God is the 
love and righteous cultivation of the chil- 
dren of men in all their faculties, both 
physical, mental and spiritual. 

18 : 17. To instruct the children of 
men so that we can trust God in them, is 
worth more than all things else ; for we 
shall rise in them in progress, as our love 
and instructions are. 

20 : 17. Through ignorance we often 
mistake the most valuable material for 
building, in both temporal and spiritual 
things. 

21 : 15. There is irresistible power in 
words fitly chosen, and uttered from a true 
and affectionate heart. 

21 : 19. In cases of danger, have thy 
mind and soul on Christ the rock of ages. 

22: 17. Fruits and wines are through 
Christ conducive to love, health and energy 
of character. 



LUKE. 57 



22 : 19. The body dies, but the spirit is 
in the living. 

22 : 29. Every person should feel the 
responsibility of a king ; for their influence 
governs, for good or for evil, as it is good 
or bad. 

23 : 10. How cruel is jealousy ! 

21 : 16. When we are enlightened in 
the doctrines of Jesus, we shall know him 
in the living. 

26 : 46. As Jesus, the Son of Man, rose 
from the dead, so shall all the sons and 
daughters of men rise in succession. What 
more can we want than to love God 
supremely, and our neighbor as ourselves, 
with the knowledge and full hope of the 
resurrection of life and love. 



58 JOHN 



JOHN. 



3 : 18. Those who will not believe the 
doctrines of Jesus, the resurrection and 
life, must grope their way in darkness of 
the future. 

4: 14. The knowledge of Jesus is a 
fountain of love springing up into everlast- 
ing life and hope. 

4 : 38. To be truly happy, we must feel 
that others are benefited by our labors. 

5 : 10. Some are more careful to 
observe the keeping of days and ceremo- 
nies, than in relieving the wants of hu- 
manity. 

5 : 19. We are creatures of imitation 
and example. 



JOHN. 59 



6 : 85. The bread of spiritual life is 
love, truth, and righteousness ; we should 
cultivate society to promote faith in mutual 
help, that we may be free from the corrod- 
ing anxieties of sordid interests. 

6 : 89. Jesus cannot be satisfied till all, 
throughout all dominions, are brought to 
the love and knowledge of truth and 
righteousness. 

6 : 47. Whosoever believeth in Christ, 
hath everlasting life. 

6 : 57. We are mutually nourished by 
spiritual food. 

6 : 58. What misery there is in the 
world for the want of obedience to the laws 
of parentage. People should learn the fact 
that diseases and propensities are trans- 
mitted ; if one of the parents is healthy 
and moral, the offspring may be saved by 
leaning to the healthy one. 

7 : 48. Administrators of old laws do 
not favor change. 

8:4. The wicked and hard-hearted are 



60 



JOHN 



more earnest for the punishment of the 
ignorant and unfortunate criminal, than 
those who are upright in their lives. 

8 : 11. If we do not have mercy on 
others, God will not have mercy upon us. 
Let every one judge himself. 

8 : 48. If we are the children of God, 
we shall have mercy for all, as he sends 
rain on the just and the unjust. 

8 : 58. Jesus is always present in the 
highest character of man and God with us. 

9 : 7. Water, exercise and temperance, 
are the best remedies for exhausted health. 

9 : 25. When the eyes of our under- 
standing are opened, we shall see things as 
they are. 

10 : 1. We should acknowledge our 
teachers, and give them credit for the way 
they have prepared for us. 

10: 18. Our lives are in others, accord- 
ing to our instructions. 

11 : 26. Jesus is the succession of life 
and light. 



JOHN. 61 



12 : 24. Whosoever giveth his life for 
the instruction of the people, shall find his 
happiness in the light of the rising gen- 
eration. 

12 : 48, How sad will be our own 
judgment when we reflect on our evil 
actions and neglect of duty — of neighbors 
deceived, husbands and wives offended, 
parents who have wounded the affections 
of their children, children who have grieved 
their parents. 

12 : 50. All our knowledge comes from 
the Father of all. 

13 : 3. What more can we want than 
•to know that God is good, and that we 
•come from him, and go to him to live again 
dn the resurrection of life, as we are pre- 
pared. 

13; 34. What a delightful world this 
will be, when true love shall be the ruling 
ipassion — when all our actions shall tend to 
improve the mind and the cultivation of 
the earth for ourselves and the rising gen- 
erations, onward to a new heaven and a 



62 



JOHN 



new earth, wherein dwelleth love, right- 
eousness and hope. 

14 : 6. The way of true life is through 
Christ, the resurrection and succession of 
life. 

14 : 10. We are in the Father and the 
Father in us — the succession and perfection 
of life. 

14 : 12. Jesus teaches his disciples that 
they may do greater things than he did, 
because he goes to the Father, and leaves 
them free to improve on what they have 
learned from him. 

14 : 19. The world cannot see Jesus, 
but his disciples see him, and as he lives 
they shall live also, and shall be with him 
in the Father and the Father in them, in 
perfection and love. 

14 : 23. If we love Jesus, he will be 
manifested in us. 

15 : 1. We want more friendly associa- 
tion ; if we would be happy we must make 
each other happy. We are all of one vine ; 



JOHN. 63 



no branch can be perfect till all are culti- 
vated and made productive and useful. It 
is our privilege to get and impart knowl- 
edge and love of truth ; and when we are 
in Christ and Christ in us — we in others 
and others in us — the more we impart and 
the more we have, till we arrive at perfect 
love, in life and the resurrection. 

15 : 13. True friends will love and 
depend on each other as themselves. 

16: 7. It is the law of our being that 
we must obtain true and elevated life 
through death and the resurrection, and 
that we stamp our impressions upon the 
rising generations according to our lives, as 
they are good or bad ; and at our own 
mature judgment we shall look back, with 
pleasure or regret, as we have been useful 
in the world, or as we shall leave the world 
better or worse for our sojourn in it. 

16 : 21. When our trials and sufferings 
are over, we shall rejoice that they have led 
us to more light and love. 

17 : 21. Christ and his disciples are 
one with the Father. 



64 JOHN 



19 : 11. The political power is in the 
multitude as it is moved by its teachers. 

19: 15. Jesus is crucified through 
ignorance and jealousy. 

19: 23. All garments should be with- 
out seam, woven from the top throughout, 
as sewing is destructive to health and use- 
fulness. 

20 : 15. If the material and individual 
body of Jesus rose from the grave, would 
not many of his disciples have known him ? 
But it takes quick and spiritual apprehen- 
sion to see and know the spiritual body. 
No old material form rises as it was, but 
the spirit is the same. 

20 : 25. How long will people doubt 
the presence of a risen Saviour — the resur- 
rection of the past and hope of the future. 

21 : 25. But the material world cannot 
comprehend the spirit and the resurrection. 



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